Computer's down, some get free hotel rooms

Published: July 28, 2008 at 8:11 PM

OSLO, Norway, July 28 (UPI) -- An Oslo, Norway, hotel chain with locations stretching across Scandinavia said some guests received free rooms and services due to a computer error.

Choice Hotels said 130 of its Clarion, Quality and Comfort hotels were affected by the computer crash, causing at least one hotel to give guests free stays and others to give free meals and services, Aftenposten reported Monday.

"This can be expensive," Choice Hotels owner Petter Stordalen said of the error.

However, Managing Director Torgeir Silseth downplayed the extent of the trouble caused by the crash.

"It's not my impression that there were major problems because of the system trouble," Silseth said.

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